Digital Culture Heresy (musings after #glamwiki)

It’s a brave person who volunteers their opinions to the lions, so if Tom Morgan can argue the case for the National Portrait Gallery before an audience of Wikimedians at the GLAM-WIKI Conference at the British Museum this last weekend [GLAM stands for 'Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums'], then I reckon the least I can do [...]

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National Archives of Australia Digital Archives

What can local archive services learn from a national archives? Rather than go through the National Archives of Australia‘s Digital Archives workflow in detail, as I did for PROV (in any case it is well documented here), I thought I’d pick out some specific details which could be useful for those of us working within [...]

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National Library of Australia – Digital Manuscripts

The position of the manuscripts collection within NLA is in many ways analogous to the current position vis-a-vis digital arcives in UK local archive services: The department has a collecting remit with private donors and organisations of national significance to Australia. This includes literary figures, people involved in the performing arts and some politicians. In [...]

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Public Record Office of Victoria Digital Archive (1)

Developing the Digital Archive at PROV Australian archival theory emphasises the continuum of recordkeeping, with good records management seen as the core foundation of archival practice. This continuity is well illustrated by the Digital Archive project at the Public Record Office of Victoria (PROV). Funding for the development of the Digital Archive was won on [...]

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Monash University Museum of Computing History

A visit to Monash’s University’s Caulfield campus, just a short train or tram ride away from central Melbourne. I’d asked to visit the Monash Museum of Computing History, which was established by the Faculty of Information Technology in 2000 as a resource for the study of computing history and to show how far information technology [...]

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DARP2 Report “The state of digital record keeping in a selection of typical depositors to local Archives Services”

Thanks to Alan’s Notes & Thoughts for the heads-up about the publication by MLA East of England of the second report from their Digital Archives Regional Pilot (DARP). This work follows on from the first DARP report, which was published in 2006 and involved the archive services in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire and the UK Data [...]

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